7th Brothers Dragos and Adrian Paval €420 million
Brothers Dragos and Adrian Paval, the owners of the Dedeman do-it-yourself store network, went up to number seven, with an estimated fortune of EUR 420 million.
First, the company was just a small business in Bacau, from where you could buy all sort of things from juice to gum, to flip-flops.
Dedeman has become one of the most successful entrepreneurial businesses in Romania, with more than EUR 600 million in sales in 2013.
Dragos Paval, 46, the director and the most important shareholder of Dedeman, is the biggest among the eight brothers.
After elementary school, he left the place where he was born, to go to high-school in Falticeni, and then went to college.
Both brothers left Suceava to study math in Iasi, and after two decades, their company is among the richest biggest companies in the world by revenue.
